@inproceedings{clausen-scheffler-2025-annotating,
    title = "Annotating candy speech in {G}erman {Y}ou{T}ube comments",
    author = "Clausen, Yulia  and
      Scheffler, Tatjana",
    editor = "Peng, Siyao  and
      Rehbein, Ines",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 19th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XIX-2025)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Vienna, Austria",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/corrections-2025-08/2025.law-1.21/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2025.law-1.21",
    pages = "264--269",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-262-6",
    abstract = "We describe the phenomenon of candy speech {--} positive emotional speech in online communication {--} and introduce a classification of its various types based on the theoretical framework of social interaction by Goffman (1967). We provide a dataset of 46,286 German YouTube comments manually annotated with candy speech"
}